Question

I. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:

Without a word he would leave me retiring whence he came, or into the other

portion of the shop, and I would continue to rest in the wooden chair inhaling

the incense of his trade. Soon he would come back, holding in his hand a

piece of gold-brown leather. With eyes fixed on it he would remark, “What a

beautiful biece!” When I too hard admired it, he would speak again. “When do

you wand dem?” And I would answer, “Oh! As soon as you conveniently can.”

And he would say, “Tomorrow fordnight?” Or if he were his elder brother: “I

will ask my brudder.”

Q1. Answer the following questions:

(i)Why was the narrator inhaling ‘the incense’?

(ii) What ‘was a beautiful piece’ for the German shoemaker?

(iii) What would have been reply of his brother?

(iv) What was the accent of shoemaker and his brother?

(v) who is the author of the lesson?

Answer 1

I) he was waiting for him

ii) the golden brown leather

iii) "I will ask my brudder"

iv) German

v) John galsworthy

Answer 2

Answer:

when the narrator has to wait for or him he was inhaling hi the foul smell in the shop